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Word: morely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dr. Gates is a close friend of Bishop Manning. Short, round, bespectacled, 63, with plump, mild face and greyish head, he dislikes to be called high-church, prefers "oldfashioned Episcopalian." He has been head of the parish of the Intercession more than 25 years. Born in Gardner, Mass., he is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: St. John's Dean | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Last week, Monell Sayre went to a conference at the Church of the Heavenly Rest, one of Manhattan's newest, most expensive churches. The subject was not money but the "mystical element in the Christian faith." Pension Expert Sayre was the only lay speaker. He talked not on dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pension Expert | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

The American, once noted as a pedestrian, commercially-minded "success-story" magazine, under Editor Crowell had been growing somewhat more sprightly, less reflective of the Alger-like business careers of button kings. Prominent among contributors in the American's November issue are Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Biographer Emil Ludwig, Funnyman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: CrowelPs Crowell | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Bedbugs are worth 12½? apiece, or 2½? more than grasshoppers. This valuation was announced last week when the University of Pittsburgh paid a bill for laboratory insect specimens. No sooner had the news been published than the University began receiving shipments of bedbugs. Many people who had hitherto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Cimex Lectularius | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

"Bedbug" is an intimate name for a small incredibly vicious insect of the hemipterous family Cimicidae. He is oval, fat, wingless and rich brown. He has piercing suctorial mouth-parts. The bedbug of Europe and U. S. is cimex lectularius; his more obese cousin, cimex rotundatus, infests the Orient. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Cimex Lectularius | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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